"... the cultural chasm separating the two Americas has grown wider still.
The condition that increasingly obtains in American society is that those who disagree no longer have anything to say to one another: Fact-based argument has been replaced by the knee-jerk contempt of identity politics.
This is why I have come to believe that I will live to see Red and Blue America negotiate what I call a “soft disunion.”
...Even in the biggest and reddest of states, there are deep-blue enclaves that have no wish to be absorbed into the whole.
Perhaps they will be the West Berlins of the 21st century, tiny islands of dissent in vast seas of concord. But if the desire to separate is strong enough, then the problem will surely be solved in one way or another...Read all.
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